The Drowning Pool
by Ross Macdonaldliterary work· published 1950
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The Drowning Pool is a 1950 mystery novel by American writer Ross Macdonald, then writing under the name John Ross Macdonald (and simply John Macdonald in the UK). It is his second book in the series revolving around the cases of private detective Lew Archer and was published by Alfred A. Knopf in the US and in 1952 by Cassell in the UK. It was made into the 1975 Paul Newman film The Drowning Pool
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The Drowning Pool was adapted into a 1975 film.
The Drowning Pool1975 · film · 108 min · dir. Stuart Rosenberg · IMDb ↗Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
